TY - BOOK AU - Patton,Phil TI - Dreamland : travels inside the secret world of Roswell and Area 51 SN - 9780679456513 U1 - 813.54 P322D 1998 PY - 1998/// CY - New York PB - Villard KW - Unidentified flying objects KW - Nevada KW - Area 51 N1 - Include index N2 - There is a place in the Nevada desert the size of Belgium that doesn't officially exist. It is the airbase where test flights of our top-secret experimental military aircraft are conducted and -- not coincidentally -- where the conspiracy theorists insist the Pentagon is hiding UFOs and aliens. This is Dreamland -- or Area 51. For Phil Patton, the idea of writing a travel account of a place he couldn't actually visit was irresistible. What he found was a world where Chick Yeager and the secret planes of the Cold War converged with the Nevada Test Site and alien landings at Roswell. A think tank for aviation engineering, Dreamland can be seen from a summit outside the base's perimeter, a hundred miles north of Las Vegas ER -